The last people to see missing teenager Pheobe Bishop before she vanished are identified – as police search squalid house – and her eerie last social media posts is revealed
A couple who were living with Pheobe Bishop and drove her to the airport before she disappeared have been identified.
It comes as the 17-year-old’s last posts to social media have also been revealed.
The missing teen was scheduled to fly from Bundaberg to Western Australia, via Brisbane, on Thursday May 15, to visit a friend.
However, Pheobe did not check in or board her 8.30am flight, and there has been no sign of her, or her luggage, since.
Detectives have not been able to find her in airport CCTV footage.
Police declared two crime scenes on Wednesday: a property in Gin Gin, west of Bundaberg, where Pheobe was living prior to her disappearance.
It was also the location where a 2011 silver Hyundai ix35 hatchback with registration 414-EW3 – believed to be the car she travelled to Airport Drive in – was found. Police have seized the car and forensic experts are examining it at a facility in Bundaberg.
Pheobe was living at the address with a couple, James Wood and Tanika Bromley, Daily Mail Australia can reveal. Tanika is the owner of the silver Hyundai.
The couple who were living with Pheobe at the Gin Gin address are James Wood (pictured) and Tanika Bromley
Tanika Bromley (pictured) lived at the Gin Gin address with her partner James Wood, and Pheobe Bishop
The address had become more and more cluttered with rubbish after the couple moved in about six months ago, a neighbour told Daily Mail Australia
Police said on Wednesday that they believe the two people Pheobe was living with were also the ones who drove her to the airport.
The couple’s neighbour, Shari Loughland, told Daily Mail Australia on Thursday that Pheobe had only been living there ‘for a few weeks, up to a month or two’.
She said living living next door to the couple had become ‘horrible’ as she had to deal with noise from parties.
Last week she had made a complaint to council and RSPCA about their ‘howling dog’.
‘They moved in late October or November, and then it’s just gotten more and more cluttered with rubbish.
‘It was for sale… We did hear last night that someone owns it and they rent from them, so I don’t think they actually own it.’
Ms Loughland had said Pheobe came in and out of the home a couple of times, but didn’t realise she was actually living at the address until news broke of her disappearance. She did not know why Pheobe was living there.
Pheobe’s final posts to social media before her disappearance also came to light on Wednesday, including an eerie March post to TikTok where she described having a conversation with her younger self.
Pheobe’s final posts to social media before her disappearance also came to light on Wednesday (pictured)
Pheobe also shared a repost on May 13 captioned: ‘When I die get my dad to lower my coffin so he can let me down one last time’
She described how she did not ‘see nor talk’ to her mother any more ‘but it’s better like this’.
Pheobe also wrote that she had been ‘in and out’ of home for years, but ‘this time we’re not going back’.
Other posts suggested the teen had been struggling in recent months, with one saying she was ‘losing sleep and losing peace of mind’.
‘I’m not built for this town, these aren’t my people,’ said another March post.
Pheobe also shared a repost on May 13 captioned: ‘When I die get my dad to lower my coffin so he can let me down one last time.’
A stomach-churning stench surrounded the home on Thursday morning and Ms Loughland said the remains of up to 11 dead dogs had reportedly been found at the property during police inquiries.
The couple were not at the address on Thursday, while detectives in forensics gear scoured the home.
No charges have been laid over Pheobe’s disappearance and Daily Mail Australia does not suggest Mr Wood and Ms Bromley were involved in Pheobe’s disappearance.
Pheobe Bishop disappeared without a trace after she failed to board a flight from Bundaberg to Western Australia, via Brisbane, on May 15
Mr Wood owns the dilapidated single-decker coach that has been seen sat outside the property and was recently trying to sell it on Facebook marketplace.
He is divorced and only moved to Gin Gin from Emerald, 500km west in Queensland’s Central Highlands, around six months ago after the end of his marriage.
Ms Bromley is understood to be a Gin Gin local and a mother of two. The couple are believed to have moved in together earlier this year.
The pair were questioned by police but later released.
A Queensland police spokesman added on Thursday: ‘Currently, no one is in custody in relation to this investigation.
‘However police continue to speak to people who know Pheobe.’
The missing teen’s shattered family are still holding onto the hope she will turn up safe and sound.
‘Phee is still missing our heartache and pain is raw and real,’ mum Kylie Johnson posted on social media on Thursday morning.
A 2011 silver Hyundai ix35 hatchback with registration 414-EW3 (pictured) was believed to be the car Pheobe travelled to Airport Drive in
‘We as a family are trying to hang onto the light of life that is our Free Spirited Gypsy Soul Phee Phee.
‘Phee we need you home, we need to hear your sassy voice and feel your hugs.’
Detective Acting Inspector Ryan Thompson revealed the new details of the police investigation in an update on Wednesday afternoon.
The seized car ‘belonged to persons who were residing with Pheobe’, he said.
Quizzed over claims Pheobe had been arguing with the driver and was then ‘kicked out’ of the car, Det Insp Thompson admitted: ‘That’s forming part of our investigation.’
‘Police are still investigating inquiries in relation to the timeline of this vehicle, and in relation to the circumstances of Pheobe travelling to the airport,’ he added.
Mr Thompson said Pheobe was living with two people at the Gin Gin address who were not direct family members, and ‘she had been with [them] for a while’.
It was those two people who police believe were driving her to the airport, he said.
Pheobe was last seen at 8.30am at Airport Drive in Brundaberg. The teen was travelling with luggage and was wearing a green tank top and grey tracksuit pants
Detectives have spoken to them and ‘they are being cooperative with police’.
‘We’re currently appealing for information as to whereabouts Pheobe was last seen’.
Police are still looking for Pheobe’s luggage, but on Wednesday afternoon it had not been located.
It comes after reports that several dead dogs were found at the Gin Gin property where Pheobe was living and removed by police, but Mr Thompson said he could not confirm those reports and ‘it’s not something I’m aware of’.
A large single-decker bus, daubed with ‘Let it ride’ above the windscreen, is parked outside the front of the property, and the grounds of the home are littered with trash.
A family member revealed that Pheobe had saved up money and purchased her airfare to visit her boyfriend in WA and was on her way when she vanished.
‘He was her high school sweetheart that moved away,’ they said.
Another relative said that Pheobe had spoken to her boyfriend on the phone just before she disappeared.
Ms Johnson urged the public to continue sharing her missing persons flyer and contact police with any information
‘She didn’t check in for her flight to visit her boyfriend who she spoke to on the phone at 8.30am,’ they said.
‘Her phone has been switched off from this point. She hasn’t contacted anyone at all, no one has seen her.’
The teenager’s social media accounts have been inactive since she went missing, while her bank account has had no activity since May 14.
A land search was conducted around Airport Drive and the surrounding areas on Monday but police failed to locate any of her personal belongings.
Pheobe’s mum, Kylie Johnson, has put up more than 400 missing person posters across Bundaberg and surrounding areas.
Ms Johnson has shared a series of updates on social media.
‘As we enter another day with Pheobe still missing our heart’s are breaking more and more,’ Ms Johnson wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
‘Phee we just need to know that you’re ok? We just need to hear your voice!
Pheobe’s mum, Kylie Johnson, has put up more than 400 missing person posters across the area and has shared emotional messages to social media every day since she disappeared
‘I’m begging anyone that has anything to contact Police Link (on) 131 444.
‘We as a family are thankful for the message of support and offers of assistance. Right now we are grasping onto hope and just trying to breath.
‘Again all anyone can do to help is: Keep sharing Pheobe’s flyer, follow the QLD police for updates and requests for information, keep having conversations with your loved ones, community and colleagues and hold your babies close!
‘We would currently do anything to be able to hold our baby tight right now.’
In another message shared on Facebook, the distraught mother said her daughter’s disappearance was out of character.
‘If you knew Pheobe you would know that she is free spirited and loves hard! She is loyal to the core and cut throat,’ Ms Johnson wrote.
She said her daughter last week marked the anniversaries of the deaths of her best friend and family members.
Ms Johnson also shared an emotional plea addressed directly to her daughter, begging her to let them know that she was okay.
It’s understood the 17-year-old had saved her own money and was flying to meet her boyfriend who had moved interstate
‘Honestly have no words to describe our heartbreak, heartache or fear that we won’t see or hear from her again,’ Ms Johnson wrote.
‘Flea, Flea, my heart tells me that you won’t see this, but I love you more than anything in the world.
‘Would be homeless just to hear you say “Hey Mummzie what’s doing”… I would honestly sell my soul to hear those words.’
Pheobe is described as approximately 180cm (six foot) tall with a pale complexion, long dyed red hair and hazel eyes.
Police are urgently appealing for anyone with dashcam footage of Airport Drive, Commercial Street and Samuels Road area between 8.30am and 9.30am on May 15 to come forward.
Anyone with information regarding Pheobe’s whereabouts is urged to contact police link on 131 444.
